metap (version 1.1)

votep: Combine p-values by the vote counting method

Description

Combine \(p\)-values by the vote counting method

Usage

votep(p, alpha = c(0.5, 0.5))
# S3 method for votep
print(x, ...)

Arguments

p

A vector of significance values

alpha

A vector of length 2 defining the significance value limits

x

An object of class ‘votep’

...

Other arguments to be passed through

Value

An object of class ‘votep’ and ‘votep’, a list with entries

p

\(p\) value

pos

Number of positives

neg

Number of negatives

alpha

A vector of length 2 defining the significance values and lying in the range 0 to 1

validp

The input vector with illegal values removed

Details

By default splits the \(p\)-values at 0.5 with those below counting as positive and those above counting as negative. However setting alpha allows for a different choice of cut-off and also by specifying two different values for a neutral zone. If either value of alpha is greater than unity it is assumed to be a percentage.

The values of \(p_i\) should be such that \(0<p_i<1\) and a warning is given if that is not true. An error is given if, possibly as a result of removing illegal values, fewer than two values remain.

The plot method for class ‘metap’ calls plotp on the valid \(p\)-values.

References

becker94metap

See Also

See also plotp

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(beckerp)
votep(beckerp)
# }